Quotes About Excellence

Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

Great actions speak great minds.

I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Giving great service requires the right people and the right service tools.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized.

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

You can't always hire great service providers, but you can create them.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

The great ones don't come cheap.